Tracking Outcomes in Pain Patients Using Fitness Devices

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Back Pain; Chronic Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Epidural injection; Drug: Epidural steroid injection as determined by routine care provider

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02420457

14-2949

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators are assessing the validity of fitness devices as surrogate measures of chronic pain survey outcomes.

Full description

The investigators are attempting to validate the usage of personal fitness trackers against the classical survey tools used. These devices are known to be of use in measuring activity and sleep in healthy patients but their use in chronic pain patients has not been assessed. This study will follow participants with chronic back pain undergoing treatment to see if changes in clinical course can be captured with these fitness devices.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Back pain which may benefit from epidural injection
• Assenting to epidural injection for back pain

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to wear fitness tracking device

Trial design

36 participants in 1 patient group

Back pain receiving epidural injection

Description:

Patients who have chronic back pain and are scheduled for an epidural injection to treat this pain will be receive a transforaminal epidural steroid injection as determined by routine care provider

Treatment:

Procedure: Epidural injection

Drug: Epidural steroid injection as determined by routine care provider